Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were projects in rural areas too , such as the Arnhem-Elst-Nijmegen route , which were designed to improve conditions for the large volume of cyclists who cycle to school or work in neighbouring villages and towns . |
| 2 | After the war , reactors like the Windscale ‘ piles ’ — scene of the 1957 accident described in Chapter One — were designed to produce material for the first British nuclear bombs , and no expense was spared in developing the necessary technology . |
| 3 | In other words , the Board of Trade could more or less control the Service , co-operating with other agencies when and where it thought necessary , although those LEAs which had or might have in the future statutory powers for dealing with juveniles were permitted to submit schemes for the exercise of these powers , provided they could obtain the permission of both Boards . |
| 4 | But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers . |
| 5 | A. kollari first appeared in Britain in the 1830s , after galls were brought from the Middle East to Devon , where they were used to make dyes for the woollen cloth industry . |
| 6 | Bosnia and Serbia possessed rich forest resources , which were used to provide charcoal for the metal workers ' furnaces as well as timber for the construction of houses . |
| 7 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 8 | The company was forced to close its Redcar and Stockton shops and the Middlesbrough branches were demolished to make way for the Cleveland Centre . |
| 9 | But few of those stations were geared to supply materials for the DIY motorist , and deliveries were unreliable or non-existent . |
| 10 | Thus , when Hunt Thompson Associates had completed the technical information , six contractors were invited to submit tenders for the reconstruction of Thames Tunnel Mills on a fluctuating price basis . |
| 11 | Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research and four were finally selected to carry it out in Swindon , Kirkaldy , Liverpool and Sheffield . |
| 12 | I saw Mrs , and Mrs said they were aiming to raise money for the scanner appeal . |
| 13 | Given that only £25 million were allocated to access funds for the whole of the United Kingdom , the answer must be , ’ What about the access funds ? ’ |
| 14 | Fang Lizhi , an astrophysicist and China 's leading dissident , and his wife Li Shuxian , were allowed to leave China for the United Kingdom on June 25 . |
| 15 | Certainly , a good deal of anti-foreigner sentiment was unleashed , first of all in Nanjing and then other major cities , and traditional prejudices were allowed to run riot for the Christmas period . |
| 16 | The workers were to receive their annual bonus for 1989 and they would be reinstated in the SATS pension scheme , but they were forced to forfeit benefits for the period of the strike . |
| 17 | The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings . |
| 18 | In Communist China in the mid 1950's , all dogs , cats and birds were killed to save food for the people . |
| 19 | Down and Derry were poised to do battle for the trophy — or so everyone thought . |
| 20 | Some 40 other computer and telecommunications companies were poised to announce support for the new standard , including Lotus Development Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Digital Equipment Corp , Northern Telecom Ltd and Siemens AG , the last two in their telephone systems . |
| 21 | The PWA went on to achieve an impressive record in building schools , civic buildings and hospitals , but more rapid and extensive programmes of public works were required to provide relief for the millions who remained unemployed . |
| 22 | These trees were managed to provide poles for the hop industry , but hop-growing is in decline in Sussex , the area of hops having fallen over 40 per cent . |
| 23 | There were additional concerns in Europe , given that the SDI programme was designed to ensure immunity for the United States and that it might prejudice the US commitment to European security in the event of nuclear war . |
| 24 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 25 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 26 | The visitor was often allowed to pull the press and , at least in some places , in return for watching the setting of the type and the privilege of carrying away the souvenir , was expected to buy beer for the workmen . |
| 27 | Although the data collected were quite adequate for this purpose , no attempt was made to claim representativeness for the doorstep survey . |
| 28 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 29 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
| 30 | Secondly , the prerogative power to defend the realm in face of an emergency was used to raise money for the navy . |